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£65.99Two Bagatelles - Alfred Reed
Alfred Reed's "Two Bagatelles" was first published as a trombone quartet, then enlarged to a brass choir and finally to a full concert band setting. Andy Clark has taken it back to its beginnings and adapted it for the Barnhouse Build-A-Band Series, so that students in very small bands will get a chance to perform music by this master composer. Sounds great if the four basic parts are covered among the instruments present.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£100.00Fifth Suite for band - Alfred Reed
Master composer Alfred Reed's newest work is yet another display of his skilled hand in the wind band medium. He has selected four styles and used each in a short movement that captures a distinctive folk dance style. The result has produced an exquisitely orchestrated and musically rewarding work for bands who demand high quality literature. I.Hoe Down (American) II. Sarabande (French) III. Yamabushi Kagura (Japanese) IV. Hora (Romanian/Israeli).
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£45.95Rosalind in the Forest of Arden - Alfred Reed
Subtitled "A Sylvan Serenade for Winds After Shakespeare's 'As You Like It,'" Rosalind in the Forest of Arden was dedicated to William H. Sylvester and the Eastern Wind Symphony.
Estimated dispatch 3-5 working days
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£64.50Selections from - Alfred Reed / arr. Douglas E. Wagner
Part I of is the first of a four-movement suite drawn from the folk song arrangements and original musical works of Armenian composer Komitas Vardapet collected during the early 20th century. Each of Reed's four movements is represented in this lush through-played medley. Douglas Wagner has crafted a rewarding musical addition to the young band repertoire. (3:00) This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.
Estimated dispatch 3-5 working days
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£33.50Music in the Air! - Alfred Reed
This music was commissioned as the opening and closing theme for MBS Television in Japan, and recorded for this purpose by the Osaka Municipal Symphonic Band on February 19, 2001, under the composer's direction. Its first performance as a concert piece was by the Eastern Wind Symphony under the direction of Dr. William Silvester on April 9, 2002 in Camden, New Jersey; the same ensemble and conductor have recorded the work for Klavier Records, on compact disc K 11130. The first performance in Japan by the Senzoku Gakuen Symphonic Wind Orchestra on June 25, 2002, in Tokyo, under the composer's direction.
Estimated dispatch 3-5 working days
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£79.50Joyeux Noel - Alfred Reed
"Joyeux Noel" (the French expression of "Merry Christmas") was originally written for brass ensemble, available from the publisher as item number M3057. Its success in that form prompted the composer to recast the work for full concert band and wind orchestra.
Estimated dispatch 3-5 working days
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£79.50Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4 - Edward Elgar / arr. Alfred Reed, M.J. Retford
Of all four marches that came after the overwhelmingly successful No. 1, March No. 4 seems to many people to be most closely related in general effect to the first. Just why this should be so is difficult to say. All five of the Pomp and Circumstance Marches are cast in basically the same form, a two-part A-B-AB, with the "A" part energetic and moving briskly along, and the "B" bringing a change of feeling (even though no actual change of pace is indicated) with the so-called "great tune" by way of contrast. However, it has become almost a tradition with Nos. 1 and 4 to play the final section in a slower tempo, probably in respect of Elgar's tempo marking "Grandioso" at this point. Certainly both of these "great tunes" could, and have, been considered as portraying musically the very essence and glorification of British majesty and power at the time they were written.
Estimated dispatch 3-5 working days
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£7.95Slavonic Folk Suite - Alfred Reed
The SLAVONIC FOLK SUITE is an arrangement of a part of Reed's RUSSIAN CHRISTMAS MUSIC, one of the most frequently performed works of concert band literature. It is a moving, powerful, and beautiful piece for band and chorus.
Estimated dispatch 3-5 working days
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£170.00Second Symphony - Alfred Reed
Commissioned in the late Fall of 1975, work on the SECOND SYMPHONY was not begun until the Summer of 1977, when the score was completed in sketch form in three months, July through September. The instrumentation was begun in the late Winter of that same year and the Full Score completed on March 27th, 1978. The first performance took place in Fairchild Auditorium on the campus of Michigan State University on May 6th, 1978, by the Michigan State University Symphonic Band under the direction of Kenneth G. Bloomquist. The symphony is a single-movement work embracing three distinct sections. The first, marked is a freely constructed passacaglia built on a flowing theme derived from the tone row that underlies the entire score: Bb-F-E-Ab-G-D-Db-C-Cb-Gb-Eb-A, and which is developed in alternating variations leading to a powerful climax at its close. The second section is, in reality, a tense, hard-driving double fugue characterized by a constant march-like rhythm underlying the further development of the original theme and its countersubject in both duple and triple meters. This section, marked also ends in an overwhelming climax and then dies away, preparing for the third and final section. This final portion of the music, marked is based upon two long, lyric themes, also derived from the row, that alternate with occasional reminders of some of the thematic material from the second section, now transformed into a rich, glowing and relaxed tonal tapestry woven together from the myriad of tonal colors available in contemporary scoring practice for the winds. At the very end, after a fortissimo re-statement of the theme in its original form as derived from the row, there is a gradual ebbing of the flood of tone from the full ensemble as the various choirs drop out one by one, leaving only a dark, warm color of low Clarinets, Baritone and Tuba, hinting at the opening of the symphony, together with a last reminder of the original motif in the Bells and Vibraphone, suggesting, for the work as a whole, an arch-form.
Estimated dispatch 3-5 working days
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£61.95Variations on L. B. I. F. D.
Alfred Reed needs no introduction for those who admire his distinguished concert band works. This arrangement for concert band draws from five movements of his original 28 composed for brass quintet based on "London Bridge Is Falling Down." Included are: "Statement," "Waltz," "March Fo(u)rth!," "A Little Funeral Music, Please (Eine Kleine Trauermusik)," and "Finale." A demonstration of compositional techniques practiced during the past three centuries, the work is filled with captivating and highly musical moments. Even though players will encounter a few changes in tonal centers, meters, and tempo throughout, there is not much that would get in the way of having a fun experience learning and performing. (2:45)
Estimated dispatch 3-5 working days
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